Dragon, all, I must be missing something regarding the cache. The files written into CacheRoot directory are temporary. Any file in the CacheRoot directory ( and not in the actual cache directories that are created under CacheRoot ) should come and go while the cache is in use. 1. request for file from cache 2. cache gets the file from origin server 3. cache temporarily writes the file into CacheRoot 4. the file very soon after gets written to its final resting spot somewhere under CacheRoot, in a dir 5. file gets unlinked from CacheRoot Now I see that some temp files would be expected to be in CacheRoot but not after the cache has been shutdown. It should either put the file into its correct directory in the cache or remove it from CacheRoot dir. Can you id where there's a gap in my understanding above? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx